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Year Five: Autumn Term. Old Curriculum

This resource from Hamilton Trust contains two weekly plans, teaching sequences and classroom resources. They cover place value, ordering and perimeter and area. The detailed teaching sequences include differentiated activity ideas, suggested resources and notes on progression and misconceptions in the specific areas. Objectives are:

Week 1

  • Know what each digit represents in five- and six-digit numbers
  • Order a set of numbers up to 1 million 
  • Compare numbers up to 1 million; find a number in-between, use < and > signs
  • Round four-digit numbers to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000

Week 2

  • Order a set of numbers up to 1 million
  • Compare numbers up to 1 million; find a number in-between, use < and > signs
  • Draw lines to nearest centimetre and millimetre
  • Measure lines to nearest millimetre and centimetre
  • Measure and calculate the perimeter of regular and irregular polygons
  • Use the formula for the area of a rectangle to calculate the rectangle’s area

The Hamilton website also hosts a wealth of other free resources.

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